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Our academic supervisors are drawn from across the UK

Every practitioner who becomes a fellow is assigned an academic supervisor, who we match with them according to their research interests to encourage as much synergy as possible.

Meet some of our supervisors.

They are listed below by year with the most recent appointments at the top of the list.

Dr Ana Aliverti - supervisor 2018-19

Date joined:

2018/09

Dr. Ana Aliverti is an Associate Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (Oxford, 2012), an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distinction, Oxford, 2008), an MA in Sociology of Law (IISL, 2005) and a BA in Law (Honours, Buenos Aires, 2002). Before joining Warwick, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, and as Stipendiary Lecturer in Criminal Law at Wadham College, Oxford, having previously taught criminal law and criminology courses at Oxford and Buenos Aires. She practised international human rights law as staff attorney at the Center for Justice and International Law in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Washington DC, US. Her book, 'Crimes of Mobility' (Routledge, 2013), was co-awarded the British Society of Criminology Best Book Prize for 2014. She received the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) (2015) and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law (2017). Ana is Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. She serves in the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminologyand the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.

Research interests: Ana’s research looks at the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, and explores the impact of such intertwining on the national criminal justice institutions and on those subject to the resulting set of controls. She is interested in examining questions of citizenship and belonging in criminal justice, and law's instrumental and symbolic power for boundary drawing. She has done research on the criminal courts and is currently conducting a project on immigration-police cooperation in England. Her work draws on post-colonial theory and the sociology of race. She is also interested in criminal law theory, human rights law, and criminology.

Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe - supervisor 2014-15 and 2018-19

Date joined:

2018/09

Loraine Gelsthorpe is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. And a Fellow and Tutor for Graduate Affairs at Pembroke College. She is also Director of the Institute, Director of Graduate Education for the Institute, and Director of a research centre within also: the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice. Beyond this she is Co-convenor of the University wide multi-disciplinary Cambridge Migration Research Network (CAMMIGRES). She also sits on various University Committees including the General Board Education Committee and the Board of Graduate Studies. Loraine has wide interests in the links between criminal justice and social justice, looking at race, gender and social exclusion, women and sentencing, and at the effectiveness of youth and community penalties in particular. She also has a strong interest in research methodologies and research ethics.

She sits on various government Advisory Committees, was deputy chair of the 2014 REF exercise (Social Policy panel), and is immediate past President of the British Society of Criminology. She chairs the European Society of Criminology Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice Working Group.

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Publications include several books, the most recent of which is Research Ethics in Criminology: Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions

Dr Nicola Padfield - supervisor 2012-13, 2017-18 and 2018-19

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Date joined:

2017/09

Nicola Padfield is Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and a Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, where she has worked for more than 20 years.

She has a broad research lens, engaged in both ‘hard’ law and in socio-legal-criminological research. She is a leading European expert on sentencing law, including the law and practice of release from (and recall to) prison.

A barrister by training, she has published widely on criminal law, sentencing and criminal justice. Her books include The Criminal Justice Process: Text and Materials (4rd edit, 2008); Criminal Law (8th edit, 2012); Beyond the Tariff: Human rights and the release of life sentence prisoners (2002). She has edited collections of essays, and for nearly 20 years was the editor of the influential monthly Archbold Review.

She sat as a Recorder (part- time judge) in the Crown Court 2002-2014 and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple. She takes a lead in policy debates, at home and abroad.

Dr Lucy Baldwin - supervisor 2017-18

Date joined:

2017/09

Lucy Baldwin is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at De Montfort University. Lucy has worked in criminal and social justice for over 25 years being a qualified social worker and probation officer. She is author and editor of ‘Mothering Justice: Working with Mothers in Criminal and Social Justice Settings’, (Waterside press 2015). Lucy has worked both in the community, in courts and in prison.

Lucy’s research and publications focus predominantly on the impact of imprisonment on mothers and their children. Lucy has presented nationally and internationally on the importance of working positively with mothers in criminal and social justice systems and is a member of the board of Trustees for Women’s Breakout. She also works closely with Women in Prison and is active in her hopes for positive penal and sentencing reform. Her recent and forthcoming publications include work exploring the relationship between prison space and maternal emotion, grandmothers in custody and as carers for children with a mother in prison, the impact of prison on maternal identity, and the need for long term emotional support for post custodial mothers.

She has recently published a report based on joint research (with Rona Epstein), which explores the impact of short custodial sentences on mothers and their children.

Professor Monica McWilliams - supervisor 2017-18

Date joined:

2017/09

Monica McWilliams is an Emeritus Professor in the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.

Research: she has recently completed a longtitudinal research study on intimate partner violence in Northern Ireland and has published extensively on the impact of political conflict on domestic violence.

She is a former Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

Dr Rachel Condry - supervisor 2016-17

Date joined:

2016/09

Rachel Condry is an Associate Professor of Criminology and a Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She has previously been a lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey, and a lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her work focuses broadly on the intersections between crime and the family. She has carried out research projects on the families of serious offenders, prisoners’ families, parenting expertise in youth justice, and adolescent to parent violence. Rachel is the author of Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders (Willan, 2007).

Rachel has recently completed a three year ESRC-funded research study, with Caroline Miles, on adolescent to parent violence in the UK. The findings of the study are published in a number of journal articles and a book. More information about the study can be found here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/adolescent-parent-violence She worked with the UK government and a number of other experts to produce the first UK policy guidance on adolescent to parent violence.

Rachel is also currently working on the topic of prisoners’ families and developing a network of international researchers working in this field. She is a member of the British Society of Criminology and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology, the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, and the ESRC’s Peer Review College.

Dr Kesia Reeve - supervisor 2016-17

Date joined:

2016/09

Kesia Reeve is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University where she coordinates the Housing Research Team. Kesia has been undertaking research in the field of Housing Studies for nearly 20 years, during which time she has delivered and managed more than 40 research projects, many with an explicit policy and practice focus.

Research interests: much of Kesia's research activity has focused on groups experiencing housing disadvantage but her specific area of interest is homelessness, with a focus on those who are particularly marginalised. She is interested in the way in which institutional practice, national policy and legislation shape the experiences and housing trajectories of homeless people. Her homelessness research portfolio has included projects focused on homeless women, rough sleepers, offenders, people with mental ill health, street sex workers, drug users, people with a history of violence, young people with chaotic lives, squatters, and 'hidden' homeless people. She has just completed studies exploring the impact of benefit sanctions on homeless people, and the difficulties homeless people have accessing the private rented sector. Most of her research makes use of forms of qualitative and biographical methods. Kesia has authored numerous policy and research reports as well as academic articles and book chapters.

Dr Charlotte Knight - supervisor 2016-17

Date joined:

2016/09

Charlotte Knight was a principle lecturer in community and criminal justice at De Montfort University Leicester, involved in developing, managing and teaching on programmes for probation and police officers, criminology undergraduate degrees and post-graduate programmes. Her previous employment was as a probation officer and manager.

She is currently a research associate at De Montfort University and has continued to write and undertake research in developing a European probation curriculum and evaluation of probation practice in Europe.

Research: Her particular research interests include emotional literacy in probation practice, and diversity in criminal justice. Research methods used have been primarily qualitative with a focus on the interaction between researcher and subject and an interest in voices that are often silenced or not heard. Her books include Emotional Literacy in Criminal Justice (Palgrave, 2014) and LGBT people and the Criminal Justice System (with Wilson, K., Palgrave 2016)

Dr Gillian Sharpe - supervisor 2016-17

Date joined:

2016/09

Gilly Sharpe is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Sheffield. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, after working for several years in the voluntary sector and as a qualified social worker in a youth offending team.

Research: Gilly’s research and writing focuses on youth justice, gender, punishment and criminalisation, as well as youth transitions and desistance from crime. Her books include Offending Girls: Youth Women and Youth Justice (Routledge, 2012) and Criminal Careers in Transition (with S. Farrall, B. Hunter and A. Calverley, Oxford University Press, 2014). She is currently working on a new book based on a longitudinal study of young women with a history of criminalisation.

Beyond academic life Gilly spends most of her time trying to keep up with two very small sons.

Dr Julia Wardhaugh - supervisor 2015-16

Date joined:

2015/09

Julia Wardhaugh is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bangor University, United Kingdom. Her research interests include rural and urban crime and deviance in South Asia, sexuality and social regulation in North Africa and the criminalization of street homelessness in urban and rural Britain.

She teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and she has supervised a number of doctoral students in the field of comparative criminology. She is currently Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies.

Research: Her research interests in recent years have been focused around the regulation of urban and rural spaces. Past research projects have included the criminalization of urban and rural homelessness in Britain, and an ethnographic study of crime and deviance in an Indian village.

Her current research focus is on the regulation of urban spaces in South Asia and North Africa, and specific concerns include begging and other marginal social identities and activities. Research methods adopted are qualitative and ethnographic, including unobtrusive observation of begging encounters in urban space and a visual ethnographic approach to studying the regulation of sexuality in post-Revolutionary Tunisia.

Prof Malcolm Cowburn - supervisor 2014-15

Date joined:

2014/09

Malcolm Cowburn is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University. He also holds Honorary and Visiting Chairs in Criminology at Exeter and Plymouth Universities. Having worked as a Probation Officer for twelve years and then managed a therapy unit for sexually abused young people, Malcolm is interested in the impacts that practitioner research can have upon policy and practice.

His areas of research interest are: interpersonal violence, particularly sexual violence, prisons particularly focusing on issues of culture and diversity, and research ethics. Malcolm’s research is qualitative and he is interested in exploring the relationships between sociological and psychological accounts of crime and people that commit crime. Further information about his publications (1) and (2)

Dr Nicola Carr - supervisor 2014-15

Date joined:

2014/09

Nicola Carr is a Lecturer in Criminology in Queen’s University Belfast. She is professionally qualified as a Probation Officer and previously worked in a youth offending team.

Her main research interests are in the areas of youth justice, probation and community sanctions and she has researched and published on these topics.

With colleagues she is currently working on a number of research projects including a study funded by the British Academy on young people’s experiences of paramilitary violence in their communities.

She is also a member of the COST Action on Offender Supervision in Europe.

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